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The most descended, their attachment to impassioned speech Judaism, and especially to my grand- America’ visits Great Neck at the “Stand for mother’s hopes Freedom in Iran” and dreams as (Hint: It’s not hard to understand why they’re so unpopular) rally organized by she used to sing a walking billboard, holding ing a family vacation praying for the Jewish Commu- that song to us. 9 P D @ : ? 8 < C F I 9 8 : ? G_fkfYpD`Z_X\cFiYXZ_ four signs with messaging the apocalypse. nity Relations Coun- Hearing the Gifk\jkfijXkk_\LE i\XZkkfX including “God hates Israel” and Moments later, before his cil came from the song again also Noah Phelps, 10, of the jg\\Z_Yp@iXeËj8_dX[`e\aX[% “Obama is the anti-Christ.” An relatives broke into song, Noah quietest voice. reminded me of Westboro Baptist Church wasn’t Israeli flag dotted with fake explained that he didn’t have “Leaders of the how we used to exactly sure why he was at the blood draped her waist. She cor- any Jewish friends, though he world, how can you accept this man in your midst with- ask my grand- protest in Great Neck. 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After he “What?!” I said. “You are complicated thing in my life?” finished reviewing the long list MAYER FERTIG refusing to service my car?” Suffice it to say that the of problems with my car, I con- The answer was “yes,” and she manager was less than excited firmed that he, in fact, would explained that two mechanics to speak to us nor was he be covering the cost of the ;\XiK_XkËjC`]\# were out, the center was com- happy to see us when we came rental, which he said he obvi- Funny thing about a car is pletely backlogged and she had into the service center. The ously would. I then and asked that one does not appreciate been instructed not to schedule welcome we received was the why, if they had the car ten to leave the table or apologize how nice it is to have a work- any more cars for servicing for equivalent to Gaddafi’s arrival days before, did they not find ;\XiK_XkËjC`]\# to all present after she manages ing, dependable car until your at least a week. Shocked, I then on US soil. After taking the anything wrong with it and did the most logical thing I keys from us yet again, he now, it sounded like my car Scene: A family meal 35 to touch most of the mashed car is no longer working or could think of: I asked her for reminded us the deal we had was on life support. minutes before the beginning potatoes left in the bowl. dependable. her cell phone number. “You made over the phone: if he “Well,” the manager of Yom Kippur. “I’m sorry,” she said, Truthfully, I am low-main- want my phone number?” she found nothing wrong with the explained, “there are some bet- A niece who shall not be adding, “Was that good?” tenance and don’t have many asked, very confused, and I told car as he did ten days before, I ter doctors out there and some named is asked by her mother “It would have been if it demands, but I do insist that when I turn my key in the igni- her I did. was going to pay for the car not better doctors, and the tion, my car actually starts. I “But why?” she asked and I rental they had arranged. It same is true about mechanics.” do not think it is too much to explained. “That’s so when I was a bet I was willing to Now I was silenced. ask that when I want to go can’t start my car and I am make. “That,” I said, “was a very somewhere, my car should stuck somewhere and am in Less than twenty-four good answer.” allow me to do that. It should labor, I know just who to call to hours later, he called me at Game, set, match. Winner: not be a scene out of the Flint- come get me.” After a bit of a home. Mike and the Mechanics. stones, with Fred’s feet pedal- pause, she then asked me to “Mrs. Wallach,” he said. MLW ing through the bottom of the hold on a moment so she could “Your car needs some serious car. Nor should it be that when see what she could do. 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Oy, I’m getting ferklempt just thinking about “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” a documentary by Aviva Kempner. For those of us not familiar with the heyday of radio and the early years of television, matronly Molly Goldberg, creat- ed and played by Gertrude Berg, was America’s Jewish mother. From 1929 until 1956, her name was ubiquitous on radio and television. Her show’s first incar- nation was a daily 15-minute radio broadcast called “The Rise of the Goldbergs.” In 1949 she made the jump to television where “The Goldbergs” became arguably TV’s first truly success- ful sitcom. Gertrude Berg, whose real name was Tillie Edelstein, was born in 1898 to a Jewish immi- grant family in Harlem. Her act- ing career began in skits she performed in her family’s Catskills resort. Her radio and television shows stand as a land- mark to tolerance and a forgot- ten chapter in modern Jewish history; a moral “Seinfeld” for the fifties, or a Jewish “Father Knows Best,” as Molly Goldberg and her family confronted the history of the old world and the wonder of the new one in Amer- ica. “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” a history of the Goldberg radio and television programs, is a clever documentary that mixes black-and-white footage from the thirties, forties and fifties into a seamless narrative. Com- mentators in the film range from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Norman Lear, who created “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” and even clips of an interview Berg gave to Edward R. Mur- row. The title stems from a trademark element of the shows, epitomizing the old tene- 311663 See BEFORE LUCY, Page 11 The Jewish Star October 2, 2009 * 16 ways you know Sukkot is coming to Israel 9 P A L ; P C 8 J ? 9 8 C @ E K deep breath before their busiest week and hardiest materials, while others are of the year as they prepare to pitch simpler affairs made of tubular piping 1. The clang of metal poles and the their over-priced wares to eager foreign and plastic walls. Every kosher restau- sounds of hammering are practically buyers. Each of the many luxury resi- rant in town has a sukkah of some kind constant as Jerusalem’s apartment dential building projects around town and each boasts bigger and better holi- dwellers hurry to erect their sukkot and has managed to put up billboards day specials to entice customers. squeeze them into small balconies, depicting the completed construction odd-shaped gardens and otherwise and inviting prospective buyers for a 12. Since the entire week of derelict rooftops. tour of an unfinished building site. Sukkot is a national holiday you’ll have a tough time deciding which festival or 2. The tourists have landed! Over- 5. You can’t get on a bus without event to take part in. whelmingly religious, English and being poked in the rear a dozen times French speaking, they jam the city’s with someone’s stray lulav. 13. Touring the country is another take-out places and restaurants, and favorite Sukkot activity and every polit- may be seen in packs wandering up 6. The sweet smell of etrogim in ical group is promoting trips to “See and down Emek Refaim and at the Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda (Yehuda For Yourself.” Chevron is a perennial glitzy Mamilla Mall, talking to their Market) is overpowering. Huge crowds favorite for the intermediate festival friends on their cell phones at the top descend on a lot on Jaffa Road near the days as the Isaac Hall in the Cave of the of their lungs. market to vie for the most shapely lulav Patriarchs that’s normally off-limits to and etrog. Jewish visitors is open for the holiday. 3. Almost every non-profit group worth its salt has scheduled a fund-rais- 7. One enterprising bookstore is 14. Not to be left out are those ing and/or familiarization event for the offering “Machzor rentals” for tourists tenacious Christian friends of Israel — intermediate days of Sukkot, aimed at who inadvertently left their holiday the International Christian Embassy of capturing the attention of the wealthy prayer books at home. Jerusalem (ICEJ) will bring 5,000 temporary Jerusalem residents. members from 80 nations to attend 8. You’ve never seen such gaudy their 30th annual Feast of Tabernacles 4. Real estate agents are taking a sukkah decorations in your life — celebration. The Christian contingent unless you’ve been to Walmart on dressed in costume of their country of Christmas Eve. In Meah Shearim kiosks origin will also take part in another manned by charedim are selling gold, annual Sukkot event, the Jerusalem green and red tinsel hangings — exact March, where tens of thousands march replicas of decorations for a different through several routes in the capital. G_fkfYpAl[pCXj_9Xc`ek holiday in the old country. Organizers claim that the Christian 8efc[afb\XYflki\ZpZc\[8d\i`ZXe_fc`[Xp[\ZfiXk`fej`ek_\@jiX\c`dXib\ki\]\ijkf event will pump $10 million into the XeÈ8ck\ii\YY\`eXi\[jl`k%É 9. Huge piles of schach (palm local economy, taking up 15,000 hotel tourists set to arrive are refugees from divorced due to the economic and fronds for the roof of the sukkah) cover room nights during their stay. Not the young American frum singles scene social pressure and the uncertain future major city squares, and citizens are everyone is happy about the Feast, who make an annual migration to they face. Neither they nor the Israelis invited to take as much as they need however. A few years ago Israel’s Chief Jerusalem from the Upper West Side in and around Sderot, who despite the for free. Rabbinate’s Committee for the Preven- for Sukkot. Discreet meetings of Gaza pullout continue to live under the tion of the Spread of Missionary Work earnest, well-scrubbed, modestly threat of Hamas shelling, will need to 10. The usual throngs of are in the Holy Land issued a ruling forbid- dressed twenty-somethings take place be reminded of one of the essential expected at the Western Wall for the ding Jews from participating in the in all the major hotel lobbies. messages of the Sukkot holiday — the thrice-yearly observance of the ancient Jerusalem march organized by the flimsiness of our physical existence and ritual of Birkat Cohanim — Blessing by ICEJ. The committee wrote in its deci- 16. And speaking of refugees — our reliance on G-d for sustenance and the Priests — that takes place during sion, endorsed by both chief rabbis that spare a thought for those 1,700 fami- shelter. the intermediate days of Sukkot. Halacha forbids Jews to participate in lies expelled from their homes in Gush any of the Christian sponsored gather- Katif back in August 2005. More than Judy Lash Balint is the author of 11. Empty city lots all over ings. Still, this year, Rabbi Shlomo four years on and hardly any of them Jerusalem Diaries: What’s Really Hap- Jerusalem are taken over to sell sukkot Riskin will host a sukkah reception for are living in permanent housing. More pening in Israel and a contributor to G_fkfYpAl[pCXj_9Xc`ek of every size and description. Some are the delegates at ICEJ headquarters. than 1,500 former Gush Katif residents the Fodor’s Guide to Israel. She blogs at Efnj^Wj `jjfd\\jif^Ç8iYXD`e`d marketed by large companies and fea- are still unemployed. Several have died jerusalemdiaries.blogspot.com k_\]flijg\Z`\j ture the latest space-saving technology 15. Another prominent group of at young ages and many couples have Sally Goodgold, a know we have the responsibili- that said “No nukes for Iran,” entrance to the United Nations. N8JK@E>8;8PFE8?D8;@E Hundreds of Israel’s Orphans Want You to Have a Ball at Madison Square Garden on October 18th New York Knicks vs. Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv Sunday October 18, 2009 at 1PM To purchase tickets please visit www.migdalohrusa.org, or for information about VIP seating, sponsorships and Group sales please contact Migdal Ohr at (212) 397-3700 Tickets for people with disabilities, subject to availability, MIGDAL HR may be purchased through Ticketmaster, MSG box office The Magic of Caring or MSG’s Disabled Service Department a 212-465-6034. www.migdalohrusa.org 1648 31 + The Jewish Star October 2, 2009 F G @ E @ F E Can’t anybody see he’s trying to MAYER FERTIG Publisher, Editor-in-Chief MICHAEL ORBACH tell us something? Assistant Editor hen someone shows you who secret until just the other day, the UN is MALKA EISENBERG, TOVA ROSS they really are, believe them. <[`kfi`Xc gearing up to demand another round of Reporters It's good advice in the school- facility inspections. If history is any HELENE PARSONS, MAURY WARSHAUER tually went to war at the cost of twenty Account Executive N yard and in the workplace, but guide, and for heaven's sake, it ought to million lives, including six million Jews RABBI AVI BILLET, ALAN JAY GERBER, MICAH D. on the stage of history that truism is be, this effort will soon deteriorate to targeted for extermination. HALPERN, RABBI YAKOV HOROWITZ, ADAM often ignored. 'catch me if you can' pseudo-diplomacy, NEUSTADTER, DAVID SEIDEMANN, BARUCH SPIER, If there's anything in the world you Comparisons to Hitler usually strike and empty threats by the world body. MIRIAM L. WALLACH, CHANANYA WEISSMAN could say for Adolf Hitler it's that he us as hyperbole. Charges of Nazism are Prime Minister Benjamin Contributors didn't try to hide who he really was. He invariably overblown and inappropri- Netanyahu's angry denunciation of the ALYSON GOODMAN published his plans for the Jews and for ate. Several years ago The Jewish Star UN's tolerance for Holocaust-denial was Editorial Designer the world a number of years before he was called “Nazi” for thoughts that welcome and heartening, but it's far N appeared on this page. Nonetheless, K_\A\n`j_JkXi`jXe`e[\g\e[\ekZfddle`kpe\njgXg\i%8ccfg`e`fej\ogi\jj\[ tried and failed to bring them to from certain his speech did not fall on Xi\jfc\cpk_fj\f]K_\A\n`j_JkXiËj\[`kfi`XcjkX]]fiZfeki`Ylk`e^ni`k\ij% fruition. “Mein Kampf” is still available; descriptions of Iran's Mahmoud deaf ears. N Ahmadinejad as “the new Hitler” seem ) C\kk\ij FOR THE RECORD you from personal experi- mated that he saved millions misguided books. Father Charles Coughlin when ence, spending two years in of Jews, those that were liber- PAUL GROSS Hitler was coming to power. The correct name of the JkXc`e Cedarhurst founder and operator of the concentration camps, that the ated from the camps and hun- Like other vulnerable Jewish website funinjerusalem.com Soviet army liberated us from dreds of thousands of Jews children, her life was made efkjlZ_X the Germans. They were our that received refuge escaping hellish in Brooklyn. She was (Kid Friendly Jerusalem; 9i`e^`e^YXZb Sept. 18, 2009) is Joanna saviors. They liberated from the Germans by going frequently taunted for being a Shebson. Auschwitz and many other from Poland to Russia. Christ-killer in addition to YX[^lp6 camps. They not only liberat- All this could not have hap- e`^_kdXi\j being beaten up for daring to N N N To the Editor: ed us but also fed us and pened without the approval of set foot on a Christian street. The new senior provost and A recent article by Jay Ger- treated us with dignity and Stalin. Also, he appointed the The single worst episode was, chief operating officer of ber (“A myth destroyed”; Sep- great care. prime ministers of the eastern To the Editor: as a child of no more than age Touro College is Dr. Alan tember 4, 2009) alleges that To say that Stalin was European countries, Poland, Your article ("Fringe Baptist ten, my mother was tied up to Kadish, with one ‘d’ (Touro Stalin was responsible for the responsible for the Holocaust Hungary and Romania and group brings hate to Great a fence and had her hair College sets succession plan; Holocaust. Nothing is further is totally ludicrous. To set the they were all Jews. Neck"; September 25, 2009) burned until a righteous Christ- Sept. 25, 2009). from the truth. Gerber bases record straight, he was no We Jews are known to triggered nightmares for my ian woman intervened to res- saint and he liquidated many show hakoras hatov to those mother. The words of these vir- cue her. 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Passover, I can said, “Wouldn’t you Kippur. They exist terintuitive. A lifestyle of trust only to find eat where I want but not guys be safer inside with all of their in something beyond our- that the bris what I want. And on Shavuos, your homes?” “ c o mp l ete n e s s ” selves that, once again, leaves was being I’m just too tired to eat. “Yes,” I said, “but because we exist us, you guessed it, vulnera- delayed. He Thank G-d for Shabbos when then we’d think it’s incomplete. When ble. Vulnerability, insecurity, waited and wait- I can eat where I want and the home that’s we band together, is the greatest gift in the ed some more. what I want. Or so I thought, protecting us. Do ;Xm`[J\`[\dXee a lulav, an esrog, world when there is a loving Rav Shlomo inquired till I was told to cut down on you know what the complete indi- parent picking up the pieces. and was told that my favorite fatty foods. protection is? Protection is vidual; the man who has it all, In addition to the Supreme although he was in the room At any rate, food habits being cared for where you are when he realizes that without Power, each generation was with the newborn and the experience a complete recov- aside, I really can relate at most vulnerable.” the other three components, and is blessed with leaders mohel, the newborn’s father ery. first glance to all of our won- So we go outside into a he too is incomplete, then he who pick up the pieces, lead lay on his deathbed in anoth- Three days later the man derful Holidays. They all com- temporary structure after is offered protection. us through times of uncer- er room a few feet away. was back on his feet, back in memorate a specific historical Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip- The essence of protection tainty, give us direction in The family was waiting the synagogue, back at his event celebrated at the unique pur, when our very existence is when we are most vulnera- moments of doubt, confusion for the father to pass away so job. Father and son enjoyed a and precise time of year that is called into question: when ble, trusting someone or and vulnerability. that the newborn son could long, productive and wonder- the event actually occurred. we are most vulnerable. And some power other than our- One such leader was Rav be named after his father. ful life together. Sukkot, however, is the when we are most vulnerable selves. For we all know the Shlomo Kluger (1783-1869), The morning hours were Show me a man with no exception. Whether you fol- we remind G-d of his promise root of waywardness is when rav and dayan in Brody for quickly passing and Rav vulnerabilities and I’ll show low the opinion that the to take care of us. we believe we can trust in more than fifty years. He was Kluger insisted that the bris you a man headed for self- sukkah represents the actual The seven-day obser- ourselves, that we have no one of the most prolific writ- take place then and there destruction. Show me a man huts in which the Children of vance of the festival also imperfections, no vulnerabili- ers in all of Jewish history, without further delay. Vulner- with a cane or, better yet, Israel lived, or whether they seems redundant, or arbi- ties. A child whose power is publishing over 160 volumes able as the family was, they friends or, better still, a value represent the clouds of glory trary, until you realize that limitless, who has no bound- on Torah and Talmud. He was accepted Rav Kluger’s ruling system to support him in that were provided by G-d to protection is a seven-day-a- aries and no control is not revered and on hundred of and circumcised the newborn times of crisis, and I’ll show accompany the Children of week promise. The observed free. He is terrified. Terrified occasions was asked to serve while his father lay near you a man content and confi- Israel in the desert, the pro- Sunday of Sukkos protects us because if he himself can be as sandek, or the person who death nearby. dent as he sits in his Sukkah. tection was there all the time. for every Sunday in the com- so powerful and act without holds the newborn at a cir- After the bris, Rav Shlo- Why then do we “booth it” ing year. The Monday of restraint, then so can his cumcision ceremony. It is well mo Kluger went into the David Seidemann is a partner specifically at this time of Sukkos we observe protects neighbor. 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This is very embarrassing to the the height of irony when cussing puberty or having “the the first we’ve seen that does boys,” she said, requiring Madonna told an interviewer talk” with their kids. so through the prism of an young married men to leave about the strict limits she set on It offers scenarios for con- Orthodox Jewish lifestyle, to their wives all interaction her young daughter’s television versations with children who offering information geared with the secular world, such viewing since so much of what range in age from very young to to, say, Yom Tov overeating, as the gas or phone company. is on TV these days is inappro- the pre-teen years and beyond, the dangers of Pesach clean- “If the Yiddish-speaking priate for children. The irony of with an appendix dealing with ing, or the relative (or utter) husband tries to interact with course lay in the fact that it was the subject of abuse and another lack of exercise offered to stu- these people on the phone the singer’s own determined offering a review for parents dents in most yeshivas. with his broken English,” she pushing of the envelope begin- themselves about the pertinent Dr. Schulman is a pedia- observes, “he is looked upon ning in the eighties that helped biology. trician who has practiced in as less than intelligent.” drag the popular culture down The self-published book Borough Park for over 30 She explains the mechan- to where it is today. But Madon- includes letters of approbation years, today treating the ics of language development na is famous for reinventing her- from HaRav Hershel Schachter grandchildren of some of her and advises mothers in Yid- self and she seemingly reinvent- of Yeshiva University and Rabbi original patients. dish-speaking homes to speak ed herself as a concerned par- Mordechai Willig of Young “Understanding Your to their sons in English and ent, even as she helped make Israel of Riverdale. A future Child’s Health” (Hamodia Trea- require them to respond in other parents’ lives so much printing is to include a letter sures, 226 pages, $16.95) is well ing or serious illness, “these kind, if not every day than at to the Torah perspective on the more complicated. from Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, organized into sections includ- claims are spurious and based least one day a week. beauty of intimacy and family It’s disconcerting when who wrote “we must prepare ing The First Two Years, Nutri- on unfounded science. The Schulman advises that life. Parents who fail to do so mothers and fathers of even the our children to live decent lives tion, Activity and Exercise, Safe- tragic truth is that there are toilet training be done early; must resign themselves to the most sheltered child realize they in an environment where there ty, and Pediatric Problems and children in our own community and notes that Orthodox Jews fact that their children will get are fighting a losing battle. Even is no restraint on what may be Solutions. The essays are drawn suffering and dying from pre- as an ethnic group have the information and form opinions children from homes with no said, shown or printed ... to from columns she’s written in ventable diseases ... because of highest number of pediatric based on Hollywood’s view of television pass billboards and avoid dealing with these issues recent years in several frum their parents’ misguided deci- burn unit admissions in the these matters. buses in the street; almost no under the guise of tznius falls publications, now available to a sions not to vaccinate.” New York area; Schulman In “Talking to your children age-appropriate, quality reading under the category of chasid wider audience in book form. The newest vaccines, also declares that spending a about intimacy: a guide for material exists for Jewish chil- shoteh, foolish piety.” Schulman doesn’t mince Schulman says, “are the safest lot on children’s shoes is not Orthodox Jewish parents,” Sara dren who read above their It’s a quick read and it words about the importance of and most effective in medical necessary for proper develop- Diament, a mother of four from grade level; and there’s almost proved invaluable in a field test immunizations, which she gives history.” ment. Proper fit is important Bergenfield, N.J., who holds a always a friend’s house at which with a grade-schooler during a to her own grandchildren. Writing specifically to but “discount or not, the chil- Masters in Jewish Studies from to sneak some time in front of long walk this past Shabbos. “As convincing and emo- Yiddish-speaking communi- dren’s feet will do fine in any YU and a Masters in Health and the tube. 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My strategy was Pediatric Autoimmune Neuro- Personal Safety, she writes guidance” and seemingly and to an appropriate stan- The 2006 Second Lebanon to start small, to test the psychiatric Disorders Associat- that after reassuring the child ignores the high rate of recidi- dard. Substandard or disputed War was one of Israel’s most waters, and progressively ed with Strep (PANDAS), a “that you are not angry with vism among abusers by writ- information is subject to controversial wars. There were make larger and more substan- recently labeled syndrome in him,” the parent should “make ing “there are special therapy removal. Users need not worry operational as well as political tive edits. which strep is apparently to sure that this person will not groups for child personal about accidentally damaging failures, mostly due to inexpe- Within minutes of my blame for when children sud- abuse the child anymore. This abusers in our community.” Wikipedia when adding or rienced political leaders who upload, my edits were deleted. denly display disturbing psy- may require dealing with the Forewarned about this improving information, as lacked focus and fortitude. Being a novice to Wikipedia, I chiatric symptoms. school, the neighbor or even bizarre and glaring omission, other editors are always However, in the final analysis, thought I had made some One important matter on close family members.” the book is otherwise excellent around to advise or correct the war was a strategic victory technical mistake in the which Schulman apparently Then, while Schulman and is highly recommended - obvious errors, and for Israel and a defeat for Iran, upload process so I uploaded declined to take a strong stand notes that, “An abuser who is not only for new parents but Wikipedia’s software is care- Syria and its terror proxy, again only to have the edits is sexual abuse of children. In not stopped can abuse hun- even those who have already fully designed to allow easy Hezbollah. deleted once more. I then saw an otherwise excellent chapter dreds of children over a life- been around the block a few reversal of editorial mistakes.” * Israel killed 600-1,000 a message in my Wiki “talk titled Ensuring Your Child’s time,” she inexplicably skips times. Hezbollah guerillas (and cap- page” — the rough equivalent tured five) and established a of an inbox — that said that kill ratio of at least 6 to 1 and my edits were being deleted possibly as much as 10 to 1. for violating neutrality. The * When the war ended, the message came from someone Israeli Army was in control of identified by an Arabic screen every single Hezbollah strong- name. 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Call Chabad Direct: 1(800)37-DONATE(36628) The Jewish Star October 2, 2009 (( T H E K O S H E R B O O K W O R M The Legacy of the Netziv: “The Path of Torah” Just the name, the Netziv, HaRav should give a shiver of awe but a sensitive human done a masterful job in bringing us a despite its complicated content. He Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin zt”l, and inspiration to being with faults that need- three-part book with 43 chapters that not only succeeds admirably, he has any knowledgeable ed attending to and prob- span a range of topics on Halacha, set a new standard for establishing a Jew. His life’s story, lems that had to be history as you have never experi- responsible “flexibility” to be emulat- as reflected in “My addressed. All this is enced in yeshiva, aggadic material ed in the future by others confronted Uncle The Netziv” reflected in the book, and mussar. with similar difficulties. [ArtScroll, 1988] which merits your attention The footnoting is extensive as Rabbi Greenman studied under by his nephew, Rav and appreciation of a true merits so scholarly a work, with a Rav Aharon Soloveichik at the Yeshi- Baruch HaLevi 8cXeAXp>\iY\i leader of our people. corrected Hebrew text positioned va Brisk of Chicago where he Epstein, the Torah While “My Uncle around the English rendition. received his rabbinic ordination in Temimah, tells the the Netziv” may be a bit Rabbi Greenman states that he June 1977. He also has a B.S. in story of the quintessential hard to obtain, I am happy to inform undertook this work “because it is a Physics and a M.S. in Computer Sci- Rosh Yeshiva and Gadol you that a classic book by the Netziv, work of profound significance that ence. For over two decades Rabbi Hador. long ignored and, by now, unknown, has largely been ignored and misun- Greenman has been employed as an While the book is has just been published in English derstood. After completing the trans- engineer for the International Space unfortunately long out of translation. The new edition of “The lation, I realized that it is unique in Station and is currently the lead engi- print, if you can get a copy Path of Torah” [Urim Publications, providing several examples of the neer for Software Quality Engineer- it would be worth the 2009] is now available in most Jew- Vilna Gaon’s pilpul method, the first ing. Despite this, Rabbi Greenman’s effort to revisit the ish bookstores. It bears a rare appro- time that such complete examples first love has always been the study author’s take of his illus- bation by one of our country’s lead- have been made available in English.” of Torah and a specific interest in the trious uncle. It reads ing rabbinical scholars, Rabbi Gedalia The Netziv was known to write writings and teachings of the Netziv. remarkably like a novel Dov Schwartz, the Av Beth Din of the in a poetic style that, in translation, The work under review is a reflection that offers the reader an Chicago Rabbinical Council. can obscure the meaning of the text of his life’s work in this field. intimate view of the Net- Under its original title, “Darkah and hamper comprehension by the This book is not for casual read- ziv, with insights and Shel Torah,” it served originally as an modern reader. Rabbi Greenman was ing. Nevertheless, it merits your seri- eye-opening historical introduction to the Netziv’s “Haamek cognizant of this literary problem and ous attention given the inherent spiri- revelations that cast the Sheala” dealing with the responsa of has effectively given the text a new tual value of its content and the subject as not only a Achai Gaon. The translator, Rabbi cast that avoids this stylistic handi- integrity of its sainted author. gifted spiritual leader, Elchanan Greenman of Houston, has cap. The text is lucid and easy to read the radio, while a station away The radio show was second causes: a rock is thrown through Ball, had arrived, and the rest is 9<=FI<#CL:P#9<=FI<FGI8? on the dial Molly Goldberg lec- in the ratings to the blaxploita- the Goldberg’s window in one history. “The Goldberg’s” limped tured about family values with tion radio program, “Amos and episode, a reference to Kristall- along for a few years but in Continued from Page Two “Place in every heart and a fin- the show’s crazy old Uncle Davy Andy,” though “The Rise of the nacht, and to the Goldberg fami- 1955 Berg called it quits. She ger in every pie.” The show character played by a legendary Goldbergs” presented a far dif- ly’s worries about Jewish rela- went on to star on Broadway, ments in New York where no proved so popular that when a Yiddish actor, Menashe Skulnik. ferent, positive stereotype: a tives in Europe during World winning a Tony award; she one had phones and the easiest sore throat put Gertrude out of The show’s message, the docu- wise, caring and patient Jewish War II. wrote a bestselling book; and way to reach a neighbor was commission, NBC received over mentary notes, was “everything mother, who was, in her own The TV show’s eventual passed away in 1966. simply to yell “Yoo hoo!” out the 100,000 pieces of mail. The is going to be okay.” It was a way, hip. For her role as Molly cancellation came about not If there is any possible criti- window. show’s success was attributed to beacon of stability in very trou- Goldberg, Berg won the very because of anti-Semitism, but cism of this enjoyable documen- “The Rise of the Goldbergs” its authenticity and to its writ- bling times. first Emmy for Best Actress, ironically enough, because of its tary it’s that Kempner perhaps began a week after Black Tues- ing, which Berg did herself. The The show was so popular awarded in 1950. own success. Philip Loeb, the goes a bit far in making Gold- day, the 1929 stock market show in its time period was also that Berg has been described as Behind the stereotype of the actor who played Jake Gold- berg’s case. Goldberg, important crash that triggered the Great a play in contrast; Father the Oprah of her day. 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We was receiving, was later sum- Korea, said it was “absolutely should never have let it hap- moned behind a poster by a necessary” for Jews to stand up pen,” he said. “If we forget the family member. against the Phelps clan. past, we have no future.” Chabad in Great Neck was “We have to go by the Shirley Phelps-Roper’s other the Phelps’ first stop on their words of Adolph Hitler,” he said. son, Luke, 7, who was also at the tour of the Jewish community of “All of us are Jews. An attack on rally, was even less sure of why New York. Later in the day they one Jews is an attack on all he was there. His eyes were hid- planned to protest outside North Jews.” den behind oversized sunglass- Shore Hebrew Academy, the fol- Abe Braun, a Satmar Chasid es, and he wore a navy blue lowing day in Borough Park and who was driving on his way to shirt with an anti-gay epithet at the East Midwood Jewish make a fish delivery, stopped to that doubles as the family’s web Center in Flatbush. support the counter-protest. address. The placard in his Shirley Phelps-Roper, “I don’t know which is hands read “Bloody Obama” Noah’s mother, earlier explained worse: that they’re out there,” and pictured what appeared to to the Jewish Star that the sites he said pointing to the Phelps be a fetus. of the Great Neck protests were family, “or that the Jews aren’t “I don’t know,” he said chosen after watching Capturing here. It’s in front of a shul. meekly when asked why he was the Friedmans, an Academy- Where are we?” he asked. there, and struggled to remem- award nominated film that Rabbi Yosef Geisinsky of the ber how many protests he’d chronicled a Jewish family Chabad of Great Neck said last been to. When asked for his accused of pedophilia. The week that he was aware of the favorite television show, he Phelps’ seven-member protest protest but did not plan to orga- quickly answered “Family Guy,” included Shirley, her husband nize a counter-protest; instead a popular animated series on and sister, two sons and a he planned to “totally ignore Fox. His mother explained that daughter, and another man. The them.” they were only allowed to watch group was dwarfed by a swarm “The less attention we give the first two seasons since later of journalists and by police offi- them, the less attention they’ll episodes were inappropriate. cers assigned to guard the pro- get from the media,” he Noah said his favorite char- testors. Every so often, a black explained. “We have to be busy acter was Stewie, a baby. The convertible would drive by blast- overcoming the darkness with show’s creator, Seth MacFarlane, ing Jewish music; each time the light; making the world a better told an interviewer in August driver yelled “Am Yisroel Chai!” place for people and that’s the that he envisions the Stewie — the nation of Israel lives — way we’re going to fight dark- character as gay. 309184 before speeding off. ness.” NOW BROADCASTING IN OUR 28TH YEAR! 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